[1]: 4 [2][3] She was working as a maid for Édouard Corroyer, chief architect of the Historic Monuments, when in 1872[4] he was assigned the restoration of the Mont-St-Michel Abbey and moved his household there.

[1]: 5  The couple rented the Tête d'Or hostel in the Grande Rue du Mont-Saint-Michel from an uncle of Victor Poulard's the same year.

[1][10]: 10–11  Uncertainty about how many travellers would arrive and when because of the changing tides made planning ahead for service impractical.

[5]According to a contemporary account by the local priest, she gave customers "the impression that they were crossing the threshold of the family home.

Poulard herself responded to a request for the recipe with[13][14]I break some good eggs in a bowl, I beat them well, I put a good piece of butter in the pan, I throw the eggs into it, and I shake it constantly.By 1932, the omelette was on the regular menu of every restaurant in the city, according to a contemporary.

[10] Paul Bocuse, after dining at Auberge, wrote in the guest book, "Mother Poulard is France!

[16] In his 2016 book Les illustres de la Table, Simmat Burniat wrote, "with her famous omelet, she is the first woman to write her name for eternity in the grimoire of planetary gastronomy".